The Fund aims to provide investors with a high income, paid monthly, primarily through investment in highly rated and/or high yield bonds from around the world and in derivatives the underlying assets of which are highly rated and/or high yield bonds from around the world.

?FE Risk Scores measure the riskiness of instruments relative to the FTSE 100 index of shares. Weekly volatility is measured over three years with recent behaviour counting more heavily than earlier behaviour. Cash-type investments will have scores close to zero. Funds will tend to have scores in the 0-150 range. The FTSE 100 is always scored at 100. There is no upper limit.

?Alpha is a measure of a fund's over- or under-performance by comparison to its benchmark. If the Alpha is 5, the fund has outperformed its benchmark by 5%; so the greater the Alpha, the greater the outperformance.

-0.06

Beta

?Beta estimates a fund's volatility by comparison to that of its benchmark. A fund with a beta close to 1 means that the fund will move generally in line with the benchmark. Higher than 1 and the fund is more volatile than the benchmark and vice versa.

0.99

Sharpe

?This commonly-used measure calculates the level of return over and above the return of a notional risk-free investment, such as cash. The difference in returns is then divided by the fund's volatility. The resulting ratio is an indication of the amount of excess return generated per unit of risk.

0.23

Volatility

?Volatility (or standard deviation), when applied to an investment fund, expresses its risk. It shows how widely a range of returns varied from the fund's average return over a particular period. For example, if a fund had an average return of 5%, and its volatility was 15, this would mean that the range of its returns over the period had swung between +20% and -10%.

4.55

Tracking error

?This measures the standard deviation of a fund's excess returns over the returns of an index or benchmark portfolio. As such, it can be an indication of 'riskiness' in the manager's investment style. A Tracking Error below 2 suggests a passive approach. At 3 and above the the manager will be deploying a more active investment style.

1.56

Information ratio

?This is a useful risk-adjusted measure of actively managed fund performance. It is calculated by deducting the returns of the fund's benchmark from the fund's overall returns, then dividing the result by its tracking error. The higher the Information Ratio the better. It is generally considered that a figure of 0.5 reflects a good performance, 0.75 very good, and 1.00 outstanding.

-0.07

R-Squared

?An indication of how closely correlated a fund is to an index or a benchmark. Values for R-Squared range between 0 and 1, with 0 indicating no correlation at all and 1 showing a perfect match. Values upwards of 0.7 suggest that the fund's behaviour is increasingly linked to its benchmark.

0.88

Price movement

52 week high129.2

52 week low110.4

Current bid price127.6

Current offer price134.3

Current mid price-

Region

1

USA

71.6%

2

Money Market

6.1%

3

UK

5%

4

Canada

2.9%

5

Brazil

2.6%

6

Germany

1.7%

7

Italy

1.6%

8

Ireland

1.5%

9

Luxembourg

1.5%

Industry sector

1

High Yield Bond

92.3%

2

Money Market

13.8%

3

Investment Grade Corporate Bonds

1.5%

4

Foreign Exchange

-7.6%

Asset type

1

US Fixed Interest

71.6%

2

Money Market

6.1%

3

UK Fixed Interest

5%

4

Canadian Fixed Interest

2.9%

5

Brazilian Fixed Interest

2.6%

6

German Fixed Interest

1.7%

7

Italian Fixed Interest

1.6%

8

Irish Fixed Interest

1.5%

9

Luxembourg Fixed Interest

1.5%

Individual holdings

1

T-MOBILE US INC 6.5% BDS 15/01/26 USD1000

2.3%

2

ARD FINANCE SA REGS 6.625 SEP 15 23

1.7%

3

CAESARS ENTERTAINMENT CORP 11% BDS 01/10/21 USD2000

1.7%

4

APX GROUP INC 8.75% BDS 01/12/20 USD1000 144A

1.6%

5

CCO HLDGS LLC/CAP CORP 5.125% BDS 01/05/23 USD1000

1.6%

6

PETROBRAS GLOBAL FINANCE BV 4.75% BDS 14/01/25 EUR1000

1.6%

7

AERCAP IRELAND CAPITAL LTD / A 4.625 JUL 01 22

1.5%

8

MEDNAX INC 5.25% NTS 01/12/23 USD2000 144A

1.5%

9

SABINE PASS LNG LP 6.25% BDS 15/03/22 USD100000

1.5%

Management

Fund manager group

LVFS

Fund manager company

LVFS Ltd

Fund type

Pension Fund

Fund objective

The Fund aims to provide investors with a high income, paid monthly, primarily through investment in highly rated and/or high yield bonds from around the world and in derivatives the underlying assets of which are highly rated and/or high yield bonds from around the world.

Benchmark

ML Global High Yield Constrained

Investment style

High Yield

Investment method

None

Fund managers

Name

Since

Biography

Jeff Boswell

31/03/2015

Jeff is responsible for managing and leading the development of the developed markets credit platform at Investec Asset Management. His responsibilities include acting as a portfolio manager across a range of Investec Asset Management credit funds. Prior to joining the firm Jeff worked at Intermediate Capital Group PLC as Head of Portfolio Management within its Credit Fund Management division. He was also a member of the investment committee across both liquid and illiquid Credit Fund Management strategies. Prior to this he was at Investec Bank Limited as Head of Acquisition Finance, where he established the Acquisition Finance platform and led the development a third party asset management CLO platform alongside. Previously he has also held structured and leveraged finance roles at NIB Capital (London) and BOE Merchant Bank (South Africa). Jeff holds a Bachelor of Commerce Honours (Cum Laude) from University of South Africa. He is also a Chartered Accountant (SA) and a CFA Charterholder.

Garland Hansmann

31/03/2015

Garland is a portfolio manager at Investec Asset Management, responsible for credit. Prior to joining the firm he was Head of High Yield at Intermediate Capital Group. Prior to this he was European Head of Credit Research and High Yield Bonds at Credit Suisse Asset Management. He has also held positions at Dresdner Bank AG and Delbrueck Asset Management. Garland holds a Finance and Capital Markets degree (Diplombetriebswirt) from the Hochschule fuer Bankwirtschaft University in Frankfurt. Garland is also a CFA Charterholder.

Compliance

No data available.

Domicile

No data available.

Fund for sale in

United Kingdom

LV= Investec Monthly High Income Pn S2

Initial charge-

Annual charge0.63%

Min single investment£0

Min regular saving£0

Available in ISANo

Ongoing charge (OCF)-

Total expense ratio (TER)0.73%

Bid price127.6

Offer price134.3

Mid price-

CurrencyGBX

Price updated06/12/2016

TypeAccumulation

Institutional or retail classRetail

Domicile-

Citi codeLUP1

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